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What do Filing Observations say about Large Load in ERCOT?
We track ERCOT's data center, crypto, and industrial power queue back to August 1, 2022. Real timelines, real prices, real numbers. This is what already happened, not a prediction of what will.
Large-Load Queue466.5 GW
Data center share90%
Months tracked23
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Line Ahead is arithmetic on Filing Observations: size, LLWG Split, and type. Not a time-to-power promise.
Tracked large load466.5 GW
Month over month+6.4%
Year over yearn/a (gap)no snapshot 12mo back
Data center share90.2%14.9% co-located
Large load queue, tracked history
Co-locatedBuilt next to an existing power plant, sharing its connection instead of needing a new one from the grid. vs. standaloneA standalone project that needs its own new connection to the grid, built from scratch. MW, monthly. Every break in the line is real: ERCOT's committee didn't meet or publish a deck those months. It only met about once a month, not every month.
Source: ERCOT LLWG / LFLTF committee decks, 23 monthly snapshots, August 1, 2022–June 1, 2026. Latest: deck of June 19, 2026.
Reality Gap
Approved-to-Energize MW versus Observed Energized MW. This is not Pending Interconnection Project MW.
Approved-to-Energize MW
8.9 GW
Cumulative, ERCOT-approved
Observed Energized MW
5.7 GW
64% of Approved-to-Energize MW is Observed Energized
By queue status
Same cut ERCOT shows in public LLWG / conference decks — speculative vs advanced vs energized. Latest snapshot, June 1, 2026.
By project type
Latest snapshot, June 1, 2026. When ERCOT only labels percentages on the type pie, MW is derived from share × total tracked load.
By MW size bucket
Latest snapshot, June 1, 2026.
ERCOT doesn't share project-level data. These numbers come from committee slide decks, read and cross-checked by hand. See methodology for what we can and can't say.